Blank Bio (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
August 6, 2025
Vertical
Healthcare,Therapeutics
Company Info
Founding Year
2025
Market
Healthcare
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

Blank Bio is building foundation models to power a computational toolkit for RNA therapeutics. Our first model is state-of-the-art in mRNA property prediction. It simulates costly experiments, helping partners design more effective mRNA medicines faster and cheaper. Our open-source models are being used by Sanofi & GSK. We’re also collaborating with the Arc Institute to bring our RNA embeddings into the next generation of virtual cell models. mRNA design is just the beginning. As the model improves, we’re extending to applications like target ID, novel biomarker discovery, patient stratification, and more. We’ve spent decades applying machine learning to biology across academia (Ph.D.’s at the University of Toronto) and industry (Recursion, Deep Genomics, Amazon). Contact us to learn more: founders@blank.bio

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